Why Dr Reti needs to read the statistics

When Shane Reti waved his health tokotoko (Māori ceremonial walking stick) at the Hawke’s Bay health organisation giving free GP visits to Māori and Pasifika youth aged 14-24, he had a golden platform to enforce the coalition Government’s blanket policy of need before ethnicity. 

In a perfect world what Reti did was right, as we would like to believe everyone is born equal. But we know...